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Such a beautiful day for an error.
Jun0
I’m having website meltdown. At the moment I hate HTML. I really do. HTML, CSS, Javascript. Everything. Why can’t websites be drawn on a piece of paper, scanned, and then mysteriously just work the way you wanted? Of course I have to struggle my way around with my small web bag of tricks, trying to make this webpage as effective as possible.
It’s pretty, but not exactly everything I wished for, you know? Sometimes the image in my head doesn’t match the drawing on the picture.
Anywho, I realized that one thing that websites are supposed to do is increase the length of time one person is on it for a while. How is a personal website supposed to do that? I’m not going to offer games, contests, or giveaways. That’s not my style and I’ve heard from other webmasters that giveaways aren’t as helpful to increasing readership. It causes a spike then disappears again. Moot. That’s what it is.
The Ugly Truth
Jun0
I have this underlying fear that people think writers are ugly. Probably less ugly than radio people, but still ugly. Why is that? Well, it’s because unlike television writers and radio people have a medium to fall behind, become a mask and display their work first before ever even seeing a face. I’m sure people read TV Squad and don’t even think about the person who wrote it.
Personally, I’ve seen the images of writers, radio people, and podcasters and was taken aback. Maybe it’s true. Maybe a lot of these people are the bastard ugly children of successful television and film stars. Even the people on YouTube have good looks and usually only the good looking (or just insanely funny) YouTube videos become the most popular.
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iStrain
Apr0
I have finally gotten around to rate most of my music on my iTunes. It was done before, but when I transferred all my music to my other external hard drive (which I hear is a no-no) only 3/4ths of the album covers and none of the ratings transferred over. I spent the past six months rating all the music. Now there are only 3 subjects to rate: Patsy Cline, Fleetwood Mac, and the new Franz Ferdinand album. The first two are obvious, the latter is because I haven’t had a chance to sit down and listen to it.
Getting to the point of the post: I could never stay on iTunes too long because after a while my eyes would start to kill me. Small black text on white background? For shame. Funny, because I am typing this on Word and have no problem, but when the text is like six point font it just hurts. That and the fact that I have more than 7000 songs (my iPod claims 8,221, but my iTunes says that there are about 7,700. I’m not sure what the disconnect is). I would have to rate about 100 songs a day and then die a little on the inside for the sake of organization.
I don’t understand why Apple has to be so stingy with their color choices. I’m sure there are people out there that can’t see or read iTunes and prefer something like Winamp with the option of skins. I just want a dark version of iTunes that comes with it. I don’t want to download some third party skin mask thing. Why isn’t there a tab for changing the colors or something?
Now that the ratings are done, it’s time to add album covers, album titles, track numbers, and year of release. I’m taking my time on those.
